LOOK: What It’s Like Visiting a Korean Aesthetic Clinic for the First Time

K-pop, K-food, and K-drama aside, K-beauty also has the country in a chokehold. Many dream of achieving “glass skin,” hoarding Korea’s best skincare products, or copping that dewy “no-makeup makeup look” just like their favorite K-pop idols. So, it only makes sense that a South Korean aesthetic clinic finally landed on Philippine shores!

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Published on 21/01/2024 by puertoparrot
Categories: Arts, Health, Technology
Tags: Beautiful, Health, skin

Aspartame: Carcinogenic or Safe?

Aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in various food and beverage products, has been classified by the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) as “possibly carcinogenic”—what does this mean?

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Published on 17/07/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Food and Dining, Health
Tags: aspartame, cancer

‘Jellyfish Season’: Warning to Beachgoers of Swimming in Sea

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Visayas (BFAR-7) has advised beachgoers to be wary of jellyfish, especially when swimming in sea waters with high temperature. BFAR-7 director Alan Poquita said hot days during summer, from April to June, could be considered “jellyfish season.”

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Published on 29/06/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, Health, Recreation
Tags: Beach, jellyfish

Philippines Sees Nearly 2,500 Maternal Deaths in 2021: UN Agency

At least 2,478 women died due to childbirth in the Philippines in 2021, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Philippines said Sunday, expressing concern about the rising number of maternal deaths. "In the Philippines, we noticed an increase of maternal deaths during the past years: in 2019, 1,458 women died of maternal causes; this number increased to 2,478 in 2021," UNFPA Philippines said.

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Published on 14/05/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Health, News and Events
Tags: childbirth, women

Mindoro Oil Spill Victims Reach 19,000

Oriental Mindoro residents affected by the oil spill from the tanker Princess Empress have risen to 19,000. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will begin on March 15 a cash-for-work program, in addition to the food relief that is already being distributed, to help affected residents and pump-prime the local economy.

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Published on 12/03/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Environment, Health
Tags: Mindoro, Program, coral, coral reefs, fishermen, marine, reefs, residents

Heart Center to Rise at Clark Freeport Zone

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. approved an executive order that will establish an annex of the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) inside the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga. It underscores the need for the PHC to have its presence in Central Luzon to give more Filipinos access to quality health care, particularly those burdened by cardiovascular diseases.

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Published on 10/03/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health

27 Million Pinoys Overweight or Obese – Global Pharmaceutical Firm

Around 27 million Filipinos are considered overweight or obese, according to a leading global health care company as World Obesity Day was observed last Saturday. “Obesity is particularly prevalent in the Philippines, where 36.6 percent of individuals aged 20 years or older meet the World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index or BMI cutoff points for being overweight or obese,”

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Published on 06/03/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, Society
Tags: Health, obesity

Taiwan Seeks Greater Cooperation with the Philippines on Vegetable Production

Taiwan-based World Vegetable Center (WVC) is looking to boost its cooperation with the Philippines to raise vegetable production and consumption. WVC is a non-profit international institute conducting research and training to raise awareness about the health benefits of vegetables with the goal of alleviating global poverty through strategic interventions.

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Published on 07/01/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, Health
Tags: Taiwan, Vegetables

PH Consulate in Macau Counters Discriminatory Claims over Daily COVID-19 Tests

The Philippine Consulate General in Macau on Saturday said the daily COVID-19 testing requirement imposed on Filipinos residing there is a preventive measure against the virus and should not be politicized.

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Published on 22/07/2022 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, News and Events, People
Tags: COVID-19, Health

Making a Killing: Pfizer’s Domination of the Market for COVID Jabs

Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that dominates the market for COVID vaccines in the imperialist countries of North America, Europe and Japan, with bilateral agreements for more than six billion doses, is also set to become the main supplier to COVAX, the global vaccine programme to the world’s poorer countries.

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Published on 27/12/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Politics
Tags: COVID-19, Pfizer, vaccine

Palace Exec Proposes Paradigm Shift in Monitoring COVID-19 Cases

Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion has pitched a paradigm shift as far as the monitoring of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country is concerned.

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Published on 28/12/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, Politics
Tags: COVID-19, economy, vaccine

Restaurants, Spas Can Fire Unvaxxed Staff, Defer Pay

Establishments that are allowed to offer dine-in or in-person services under the relaxed alert levels so long as their workers are vaccinated can withhold the salary of—or even fire—employees who are not vaccinated. The recent guidelines of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) exempted certain establishments from the “no vaccine, no work” and “no vaccine, no pay” policies.

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Published on 22/10/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Legal
Tags: COVID-19, Workers, economy, establishments, vaccine

Deep 'scarring' from Virus Holds Back PH Recovery

The Philippines’ economic recovery lags behind in Asia, no thanks to deep pandemic scarring, and it could take beyond 2023 to return to its prepandemic growth potential, think tanks said.

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Published on 22/10/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Society
Tags: COVID-19, capital, economy

What Keeps PH Business Owners Up at Night?

Day 8 Business Academy Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), conducted a survey between June and August this year to determine the current state of mind of SME business owners and see what kind of help or assistance they need given the daunting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Published on 08/10/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Society
Tags: COVID-19, business

Senate to Lead Region with Progressive Vaping Laws

“The world is watching as the Philippines Senate looks set to approve the most progressive and risk-proportionate vaping legislation in Asia Pacific. We’re hoping other countries in the region will then follow their lead,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA).

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Published on 22/07/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, Politics
Tags: Tobacco, e-cigarette, vaping